It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | Barack Obama Joins the Wimps On Spying Against Us |
Today, Barack Obama joined the spineless wimps of the Democratic Congress.
“I support the compromise.” - Barack Obama.
Compromise? The bill that Barack Obama announced his support for today gives George W. Bush everything that he wanted. It gives telecommunications corporations retroactive immunity for breaking the law. It gives Bush the power to conduct physical searches of Americans’ homes and businesses without any search warrant, judicial control, or congressional oversight. It provides George W. Bush the power to spy on Americans as they use the Internet, talk on the telephone and move around the country with GPS devices.
This so-called compromise is a surrender. It is a capitulation. It is loss of what Americans had been guaranteed by the Bill of Rights - protection from unreasonable search and seizure and an absolute promise of search warrants.
Since when are the Bill of Rights something that we’re expected to compromise on? Once upon a time, the Constitution was regarded as an absolute contract, a set of rules with the power of the ultimate law of the land. Now, the Constitution is regarded as a mere suggestion, a set of guidelines, a mere starting point for negotiations, something to be compromised in the quest for power.
Barack Obama says that the President’s unrestrained physical search powers and uncontrolled electronic spying program against Americans is “an important tool”. Mr. Obama, it’s you who is the tool.
Barack Obama also says that if he is elected President of the United States, he will continue the spying program against Americans begun under the Protect America Act and extended under the FISA Amendments Act: “as President, I will carefully monitor the program”.
Barack Obama won’t end the spying program against Americans. He’ll monitor it. Hey, Obama - George W. Bush is already monitoring the spying against us. That’s the point - get it? We’re all being monitored.
I don’t want Barack Obama monitoring me any more than I want George W. Bush monitoring me.
Let me make this clear:
The FISA Amendments Act is not Change We Can Believe In
Barack Obama Just Lost My Vote
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You can’t think that you are now going to vote for McCain…..Honey,…….what is your choice? YOu tell me!
Comment by P.M. Cook — 6/21/2008 @ 12:19 am
No, I won’t vote for McCain, but Barack Obama has just demonstrated that he is willing to engage in the worst kind of abuse of power - the kind of abuse of power that Democrats have called impeachable when Bush does it.
I’ll have to find an alternative, but I am NOT rewarding Barack Obama for promising to extend George W. Bush’s attacks on the Constitution! Barack Obama was supposed to be about ending Bush’s abuses, not continuing them.
Comment by J. Clifford — 6/21/2008 @ 5:32 am
Change is turning out to be more of the same. Politics is politics, don’t take a stand unless you’re republican. Stupid as republicans are, they stick together.
Comment by Bob — 6/21/2008 @ 9:09 am
So much for change, if only Congress would get some balls and just stand up against this… a neocon hidden in Democrats. Really, this just makes me sad… and Ron Paul given up… so what now, what now…
Comment by Vernon — 6/21/2008 @ 9:45 am
It’s time to break the two party system when no good choice is given for the office of president. Dems and Republicans have both been working hard to strip you of your constitutionally protected rights. H.R.6304 is just another step toward destroying the bill of rights, and without that we are all just slaves to the state. The only good choice left for a presidential candidate - if you still enjoy your freedom - is Bob Barr.
Comment by Shawn — 6/21/2008 @ 9:58 am
That’s it I’m staying home. There should be enough of us that will vote for Obama in California but my hands will be clean.
Comment by Luv in Ca — 6/21/2008 @ 10:27 am